Identifiability of Large Phylogenetic Mixture Models

Details Identifiability of Large Phylogenetic Mixture Models Identifiability of Large Phylogenetic Mixture Models

2010-11-18

arxiv.org/abs/1011.4134v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

15 pages

Scientific paper

Phylogenetic mixture models are statistical models of character evolution allowing for heterogeneity. Each of the classes in some unknown partition of the characters may evolve by different processes, or even along different trees. The fundamental question of whether parameters of such a model are identifiable is difficult to address, due to the complexity of the parameterization. We analyze mixture models on large trees, with many mixture components, showing that both numerical and tree parameters are indeed identifiable in these models when all trees are the same. We also explore the extent to which our algebraic techniques can be employed to extend the result to mixtures on different trees.

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